ENTERTAINMENTS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 109, 10 May 1909, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

"A MINER'S TRUST."' "The Two Sailor Boys" was presented for the last time at the Opera House on Saturday night, before a large audience To-night, the second week of the Meynell and Gunn dramatic season will open with the staging of a new Austra lian play, entitled "A Miner's Trust." It is described as a drama full of life, and vigour, and incident. A young prospector is impersonated by his mate, who, after the other's death, goes to England to marry the dead man's blind sweetheart. Many complications and tribulations ensue, and the action is kept at a high pitch of interest. Among a number of striking scenes is that of a shipwreck, in which people are rescued by rocket apparatus. The piece will be presented by the full strength of the company, including Miss Beatrice Holloway, Miss Lillian Meyers, Mr. Herbert J. Bentley, and Mr. J. B. Atholwood. Miss Beatrice Holloway is cast as Alice Medgway; Miss Lillian Meyers as Ida Medway ; Mr. Herbert J. Bentley as Alan Trengrove, and Mr. J. B. Atholwood as Gaspard Le Rouge. In consequence of the brief duration of the season "A Miner's Trust" is announced for a limited number of nights. THEATRE ROYAL. There was a numerous audience at the Theatre Royal on Saturday, when a complete change of programme was made. The new collection of pictures is of more than average merit, and include* three cinephone items — "Billy Brown from London," sung by Arthur Gilbert, accompanied by a quartet of ballet dancers; "We all Walked into the Shop," by Alf Gordon with a pierrot chorus ; and Stanley Kirkby in "On a Tree by a River," from the "Mikado." Among the ordinary pictures is a splendid film giving a very clear and interesting glimpse of Naples and its surroundings ; other excellent items are "A Chinese Wedding,", "Life in Central Africa," and motor-racing, besides a more than usually funny lot of humorous pictures. The programme will be repeated tonight. ROYAL PICTURES. The present programme at His Majesty's Theatre continues to draw very huge audiences. The bill is a particularly good one, and those who assemble there nightly to see it show their great appreciation of a first-class entertaini ment. The last two nights of the programme are announced, and the usual change will take place on Wednesday evening. ORGAN RECITAL. Mr. Maughan Barnett's organ recital in the Town Hall on Saturday evening was greatly appreciated by the audience, who applauded each number with much heartiness, and the little "Serenade," by Pierre, was encored. The first number was the fine Bach "Prelude and Fugue" in E minoi'. The Good Friday Music from "Parsifal" (Wagner) was another imposing number. The programme contained more English music thanjs usual; Smart's "Air and Variations" was a welcome item. An air varie is not a favourite subject with an audience, though much may be forgiven in the case of so pleasing a theme as the one given by Smart. A "Melodic" by Coleridge-Taylor and Elgar's noble march "Pomp and Circumstance" were the other pieces played. At next Saturday's recital the programme will include Bach's Prelude and Fugue in A minor, a fantasia, on airs from "Faust" (Gounod), and Chopin's Nocturne in G minor. OLYMPIA RINK. ■ The floor of the Skating Rink was crowded with skaters on. Saturday night, and a large number of spectators were alw present, and seemed to take keen delight in the gyrations of many aspirants for honours. A fifteen-lap handicap run will take place to-night, and for Thursday a polo match has been arranged between two teams from H.M S Challenger. The first carnival of the season will be held on 26th May.